2012 Tesla Model S Prototype Workshop: Photo Gallery

Some of the loudest of the skepticism over Tesla's plans to design and build an all-electric luxury sports sedan have died down after the company showed an all-aluminum body-in-white at the Detroit Auto Show in January.

Tesla is continuing its campaign to convince the global automotive world that it's a real and viable carmaker, rather than simply a group of Silicon Valley electronics geeks who've managed to have another carmaker build 1,500 copies of an expensive all-electric two-seat supercar.

Toward that end, this week Tesla released several photos of the workshop at its Palo Alto, California, headquarters where prototypes of its 2012 Model S sedan are being engineered, assembled, tested, and torn apart again.